Convox Rack is a private PaaS that runs inside a user’s AWS account and provides a managed application deployment layer over cloud infrastructure. It is designed for teams that want the productivity of a platform-as-a-service while keeping workloads, data, and infrastructure under their own control. Developers interact with Rack through the Convox CLI to create apps, set environment variables, deploy code, build releases, and promote updates. The platform handles application lifecycle tasks such as releases, logs, processes, scaling, rack updates, access credentials, and operational configuration. It also exposes commands for inspecting rack processes and generating Kubernetes configuration for the underlying cluster. Convox Rack is especially useful for teams that want repeatable deployments, cloud-native isolation, and reduced infrastructure maintenance without moving everything into a fully managed third-party runtime.
Features
- Private PaaS inside AWS accounts
- CLI-based app deployment workflow
- Environment variable management
- Release build and promotion process
- Rack scaling and update commands
- Kubernetes configuration access